Beginning March 12, Lincoln Center Theater will present the world premiere of Flying Over Sunset , a new musical from James Lapine , Tom Kitt , and Michael Korie that takes as its subject… LSD. Discovered in 1938, Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, was used to treat mental illness and to expand consciousness before it became an emblem of the counterculture and psychedelia, shortly before being outlawed in 1968. READ: Carmen Cusack, Harry Hadden-Paton, and Tony Yazbeck to Lead Cast of New Broadway Musical Flying Over Sunset. But before that, it was frequently used by the upper echelons of Hollywood and society, including Flying Over Sunset characters Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Boothe Luce. Full story